FIBT World Championships 1990
# FIBT World Championships 1990

The FIBT World Championships 1990 took place in St. Moritz, Switzerland (Bobsleigh) and Königssee, West Germany (Skeleton). St. Moritz hosted a championship event for the record seventeenth time. The Swiss city had hosted the event previously in 1931 (Four-man), 1935 (Four-man), 1937 (Four-man), 1938 (Two-man), 1939 (Two-man), 1947, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1965, 1970, 1974, 1977, 1982, 1987, and 1989 (Skeleton). Meanwhile, Königssee hosted a championship event for the third time, doing so previously in 1979 and 1986.

## Two man bobsleigh

| Pos | Team |
| - | - |
| Gold | Switzerland (Gustav Weder, Bruno Gerber) |
| Silver | East Germany (Harald Czudaj, Axel Jang) |
| Bronze | East Germany (Wolfgang Hoppe, Bogdan Musioł) |

## Four-man bobsleigh

| Pos | Team |
| - | - |
| Gold | Switzerland (Gustav Weder, Bruno Gerber, Lorenz Schindelholz, Curdin Morell) |
| Silver | East Germany (Harald Czudaj, Tino Bonk, Alexander Szelig, Axel Jang) |
| Bronze | Austria (Ingo Appelt, Gerhard Redl, Jürgen Mandl, Harald Winkler) |

A controversy was created when Weder was caught overnight by officials scraping off ice at a difficult corner of the track. Bobsleigh officials allowed him to compete, and he won his first world championship in the four-man event.

## Men's skeleton

| Pos | Athlete |
| - | - |
| Gold | Michael Grünberger (AUT) |
| Silver | Andi Schmid (AUT) |
| Bronze | Gregor Stähli (SUI) |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Switzerland (SUI) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Austria (AUT) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Totals (3 entries) | Totals (3 entries) | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
